Another fantastic idea for the building of this project and community! Looking forward to submitting and investigating many of builds on Openhardware.io! Thank you once again for your time and passion @hek and all the Admins...

...to follow up on the automatic github import-crawler script. It's done, but I don't dare to push the button. It will probably spam the OH.io site and this forum with new projects. Some big players like Sparkfuns github account has 200+ projects alone.

Did you have any contact with Sparkfun? I would check if they mind their projects being published outside GITHUB. Maybe you will then need to make a blacklist for the crawler to avoid "asimilating" these projects. After all, we are not the Borg are we ?

No, I haven't had any contact with them, and the server would probably not handle the sheer amount of data. So letting the bot lose won't happen in the near future.

Interesting question though... Sparkfun claim their hardware is open source, so I Imagine distributing their design files in new channels shouldn't be illegal at least (keeping their license information of course).

True, it would not be illegal. But given the amount of information that would be copied, they could question the ability of the OH.io site to keep in sync. out of date info would make OH.io a bit dodgy. Especially for new users of MySensors library and the published hardware.

I would also like to be informed when someone posts my designs somewhere. They can do that for sure (unless the site is owned by a Donald), but notification of the fact would be a minimum courtesy.

Why not let the site grow with input from users themselves, instead of letting bots do that work ? If importing a project into the site is easy (and it feels that way to me), then this should be enough no ?

I agree with @GertSanders on the two points made just. I also would like to be notified when my project gets shared and also about the self uploading option rather than a bot. I do feel that the site has huge potential to aid in the open hardware community, growing the scope of our projects which in turn should grow MySensors too. If the uploads were done manually you could then either put a 'throttled bottleneck' or a complete halt on the uploads until you upgrade the server capacity/through-put. That way you can do it as and when needed, if the funds are available obviously.

The script will still be useful for the daily sync job (of the current github connected projects) and if some new user wants to batch import all of their projects in one swoosh.

This last points adds in the ease to upload multiple projects. I would advertise this possibility, and use the script on demand. It's nice to know that importing from github is possible already, but it is even nicer to know that multiple projects can be added this way as well.

Openhardware.io now generates top/bottom view images automatically when project contains gerber files (they should pop up in the files-tab, available for publication). This function may fail silently if it runs into problems rendering the gerbers.

Added possibility to add stl-files. Good when you want to create a project containing enclosures. Had to skip online 3d-viewer for now. The stl-files should pop up in the design files tab.

Also fixed some problems using firefox.

A small update regarding new manufacturers: ITead will soon do integration tests, hope to have them on board soon.

Great work @hek
Would it be easy to include the openhardware description in the auto-created forum thread? I think that would make it easier for forum users to see the nice stuff available on openhardware.

Yes, it would be possible (as both uses markdown)... but it could get messy with the embedded images. They are often relative to the openhardware.io domain so it would take some regex magic when pushing it to the forum.

The box you see here is actually an iframe showing content directly on openhardware.

I'm using Firefox and it's impossible to open projects from this page in new browser tabs. Both mouse middle click and CTRL+left click isn't working. First one just scrolls browser window, second one opens project in the same tab instead of opening in new tab. Also it's impossible to right click on project preview image to select "Open Link in New Window" context menu item.